Yay! The surf's arrived.

Finally after three weeks of little to no surf we've got a solid swell that looks set to continue for the next week. Water's warming up slowly too and I've taken off my gloves but it's only just warm enough to surf without them. The hoods gone too which is a big relief especially as I got sunburnt yesterday which would have made for very stupid looking tan lines had I been wearing it!

I've been making full use of the last 3 days of surf and as a result am feeling sore and tired and have done very little work but now I've got the desperation out of my system I'm going to have to knuckle down, not the easiest thing to do when you can see the surf's pumping on the webcam.

Helen and I went up to Llangennith yesterday to interview Pete Jones who runs the surf shop and surfline surf report for the area. He talked to us about the changes he's seen in his 40 years of surfing Gower. We then headed to Langland for a surf in the sunshine. His interview should be online next week sometime.

Next weekend is the Welsh Nationals in Pembrokshire so I'm heading down with some of the other girls to give it a go and looks like the swell's going to stick round too. Should be a good weekend.

See you in the water.

Carbon Offsetting and a Party (No surf though!)

What a rubbish month for surf. Apart from those 2 lovely days on the 30th and 31st March. But April has been dire, either flat or really windy, all in time for the start of the contest season! Hopefully it'll pick up soon.

In the meantime Helen and I have been busy working on ideas for the feature length version and doing some more filming.

This week we went to Bristol to interview Richard Whistance the founder of The C Change Trust, a carbon offsetting charity with a difference.

They're a UK based charity and the money goes towards re-establishing, planting and maintaining green spaces and native woodland. Renewable energy projects and educating school children.  Richard was great to interview and very passionate about sustainability and climate change I think he'll be great on screen I just don't envy Helen wading through what was a long and interesting interview and getting it down to a couple of minutes of screen time.

Tonight we're going to the Tonnau Surfers Ball at Langland, Gower. The magazine are organising a party at which we are screening some of the film so far and if we have time my surf film Grey Days.  Should be a good night and be good to get some feedback before we get going on the finished film.

I'll blog on how it goes and hopefully there'll be some surf by next week!

 

Funding and some lovely surf.

Surf's going flat this week but we've had a couple of lush days over the last couple of weeks with last Monday being the best of them. With sunshine, light winds and 4-6ft of swell it felt like summer was on the way. Unfortunatly it doesn't look like we'll be seeing anything like that for at least the next 10 days.

We got some good news from the Welsh Film Agency who have offered their support for the film and have awarded us a grant in order to get the film another editor and for marketing. They would like to see the film making it to the cinemas and hopefully with their support it will. Exciting times! All we need now is the surf!